The Gang of Five
Beyond the Mysterious Beyond => Hobbies and Recreation => Computer and Electronics => Topic started by: pokeplayer984 on September 30, 2017, 02:03:28 PM
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So, I bought this little beauty earlier this month.
(https://i.imgur.com/3rugg1ah.jpg)
A 512GB Micro SD Card for my Nintendo Switch.
It came from China.
Took over three weeks to get to me.
It cost me only $11 + $5 shipping.
It comes from a place that's infamous for many knock offs. It takes forever to get to me. It's on the cheap! All likely candidates to indicate that this is some sort of fake. No way it can be trusted! Best to warn everyone, right?
Wrong!
Below is the results from a program that can tell you just how big something actually is and can find if there's some sort of code in it that makes it say that. Took over 60 hours, but here's the end result.
(https://i.imgur.com/dRTc1Ik.png)
Other than the data of what's written on it from my Nintendo Switch, (That's the yellow you see there.) there's nothing in here. It's the real deal! I seriously cannot believe I got this amazing item so cheap.
This was money well spent!
Couldn't be happier with my purchase! :)
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512 GB!? And it was only 16 dollars with shipping???
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that's more than my entire harddrive, daaaaaaaaaang :p
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That's a heck of a lot of data! For a cheap price!
10/10
Best card
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If it's really 512GBs, that would be truly awesome, but I kind of doubt it still. Testing it with various other programs would be the best thing to do, as data loss is not a fun thing :/
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Still sounds really sketchy to me. I hear there's fake cards, that really only have a very small capacity, but are formatted to make it look like they have a lot of space, like 512 gigs or something. If you try to load up more data then they can really hold, it starts corrupting everything, and you lose your data.
Just to be safe, I would load it up with as much crap as I could find(movies, games, whatever you can copy over that is huge in file size) to see if it actually holds close to 512GB of data, and all of that stuff is still undamaged.
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Okay, let me remove those doubts by pointing out something. When you insert a Micro SD Card for the first time into the Nintendo Switch, it asks you to format it so it can be used. I guess this is to deter hackers from using their own software, but it's an important thing in ensuring it's real. I had inserted the card into my Nintendo Switch immediately and let it format the thing.
So, when I ran the test, the only thing on it was whatever program my Nintendo Switch put onto it to make it function with said system.
And if you still are going to argue after the fact that it's been formatted, then I'm not going to press it any further. As far as I'm concerned, it's real. I got a great deal and that's final! I'm going to be enjoying that new Micro SD Card for quite some time. I just really don't feel ripped off in the end.
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So, I bought a second 512 GB Micro SD Card. This one I had planned to use for my 3DS. However, I soon found it not working regardless of what I tried. Turns out, there's nothing wrong with the card itself. (I even formatted it multiple times to make sure.) Instead, for some reason, the 3DS can't work with cards higher than 32 GB.
So, since returning it would be a 8!t(h, looks like I've got a back up in case something goes awry in the future.
Maybe I can use it for something else. I'll keep you all posted on it.
In the meantime, I grabbed a 32 GB off the shelf at Walmart to use for my 3DS and it worked quite well. At this point, I have too much space. I don't think I'll run out any time soon. :)littlefoot